> Text is just bytes, and bytes are just text. I assume this is talking about human readable ASCII specifically.
Text is human readable writing (not necessarily ASCII). It is most certainly not just any old bytes the way you are saying.
Text is human readable writing (not necessarily ASCII). It is most certainly not just any old bytes the way you are saying.
It makes more sense to consider readability or comprehensibility of data in an output format; text makes sense for many kinds of data, but given a graph, I'd rather view it as a graph than as a readable text version.
And if you have a way to losslessly transform data between an efficient binary form, readable text, or some kind of image (or other format), that's the best of all.
I suppose open standards have slowly been winning with opus and AV1, but there's still so many forms of interactions that have proprietary or custom interfaces. It seems like anything that has a stable standard has to be at least 20 years old, lol.